"Wokeism is a religion" rubs me the wrong way because I don't share the New Atheist assumption that religions is inherently poisonous or discreditable. And in fact, liberal Protestantism was historically a huge force for abolition, civil rights and anti-racism in general.
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But that’s not religion.
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Kindly please don’t interrupt Jeet Here’s Deep Thoughts with common-sense interjections.
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Maybe being woke isn't bad?
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If you excise *all* the "superstitious mumbo jumbo" it's pretty hard to argue you're left with something that can be called a religion, and certainly not a religion in the sense the vast majority of people are religious.
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Religion as poetic metaphor or social ritual for ethical philosophy is something non-religious people sometimes want to ideally call "good" religion and give it a pat on the head, but that's insulting to what religion is to most religious people.
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A morality which has no metaphysical basis is a castle built on sand that reduces either to social posturing, the expression of mental illness, or aesthetics.
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Those are words.
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By whose moral standard? People who superstitiously believe I should not be allowed to do as I please with my body because "sex work bad, sexy pixels ebil"?
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